Aquarelle und Zeichnungen von Carsten Wieland

Port of Hamburg

I did live in Hamburg for 20 years before I came back to the Ruhr area in 2011. I know a lot of people who think that Hamburg is Germany´s most beautiful city and I agree that it is an awesome place. Since I left there I have only been there once again to visit the 50th anniversary of the famous Star-Club in 2012. I would rather like to go there again for a few days to see some old friends and paint at the river Elbe and the harbor, but time is going by so fast and there are a lot of other places I would like to visit, too. But I still think of Hamburg a lot and I would like to paint some of my favorite locations in the nearer future. Yesterday I started with the first one – a view over the river Elbe to the swimming docks of Blohm & Voss. I drew a very rough pencil sketch of the scene using some old photos from my stock as a reference. The watercolors were then painted with the pencil sketch as only reference.

Thanks so much, Michael! 🙂 So we have something in common: Hamburg, Horst Janssen… and Felix, who is an awesome artist. Horst Janssen has deeply impressed and influenced me since I discovered him and his works in a exhibition in Vienna!!! in 1982. The exhibition´s catalogue “Albertina Wien / Horst Janssen. Zeichnungen” is still one of my favorite art-books.

Thanks so much, Margaret! I tried to make the complex scene as simple as possible. It was good to paint with the rough pencil sketch as my only reference – that made it much easier. Details about my time in Hamburg could probably fill a row of books – but I live today and i am not really into auto-biography! LOL! 🙂